Category: Business Leader

While many companies engage in corporate social responsibility just to be in good books with the authorities, at Stream Energy philanthropy is part of their culture. Stream, a hugely successful energy sales company, is fully dedicated to philanthropy; a culture the company has adhered to since it was established in August 2004 by Rob Snyder and Pierre Koshajki.

The Dallas based company recently established a welfare foundation dubbed, Stream Cares, to advance its philanthropy causes in Texas and the entire states of the U.S. Stream Energy is not one of those companies to just write a check and sit back in the offices hoping the check will solve everything. Rather, Stream, through its employees, is directly involved in the lives of the people they support.

This was the case in Houston, when Hurricane Harvey hit the region, leaving in its path, devastating effects that led to the loss of livelihoods of many people. Stream Energy was the first company to engage the victims of the hurricane, availing food, medicine and temporary shelters for the victims, besides helping them build their financial lives back up again.

The decision of Stream Energy to establish the charity branch, Stream Cares Foundation, although, not a common practice for many corporations, is a big stride towards fulfilling their social responsibility. The Stream Care Foundation will not only be beneficial to more people in the community but also gains Stream, massive accolades from customers and shareholders who feel they are part of a noble act in the community.

Having already established long-standing collaborations with notable charity groups such as the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, Stream Energy is better placed to spearhead to identify and support the most effective philanthropic causes.

Top on Stream’s list of noble causes is their goal to eradicate or contain homelessness in Dallas. To spearhead this cause, Stream came up with Hope Supply Co. Through the Hope project, Stream Energy is able to establish the number of homeless people in Dallas and direct their funding towards the cause. Additionally, Stream’s annual Splash for Hope initiative gives the company’s employees and associates an opportunity to directly be of service to the homeless, by serving them food and helping them get a roof over their heads

While attending college at Penn State, Matt Badiali, majored in both geology and earth science. It was not until pursuing his doctorate in 2004, did Badiali begin to redirect his career focus towards his secondary passion of finance. He was approached by a financial expert, in need of his geological advice specifically in the area of natural resource investments. After some initial discussion, Badiali was offered a company position working on geological investment research. It was at this moment that Badiali says that he found his true career calling.

Matt Badiali began editing and publishing with Banyan Hill, a financial newsletter, in 2017 under the alias of Real Wealth Strategist. Real Wealth Strategist, offers readers expert advice on natural resource investing, with topics ranging from concrete materials, oil, and metals, to agricultural commodities. Badiali contributes his success as a financial advice editor and publisher to his extensive background and his ongoing passion for finance. Indicating that only an editor with specific expertise could produce comprehensible material, that any average person could effortlessly digest. The more informative and concise an article presents itself, the more impactful is on an individual’s capacity to learn complex material.

Matt Badiali views his position at Banyan Hill, as the ideal opportunity to fully utilize all of his expertise. In the pursuit of transforming how the natural resource market is interpreted, each monthly report published by Matt Badiali is the result of first-hand conducted research. The research is done in most cases at the source. Highlighting field studies done in global areas presently dominating the geological and natural resource markets, such as Hong Kong and Canada. While on these excursions, care is taken to investigate the quality and quantity of the natural resources being brought to market, as well as their overall economic success on a global scale.

In his interview with Interview.net, Matt Badiali predicts that in the near future, electricity will become the dominant source of power. Mentioning the high potential for electricity to replace other fuel sources, such as gasoline, propane, and diesel as a cleaner energy source.

Gareth Henry has had many different types of jobs in the financial and investment side of things. One of the main jobs though is being the leader of many different global investment management companies. This article is going to give you a little deeper look into Gareth Henry. Gareth Henry went through a lot of schooling to teach him about investing companies, and to get him to where he is today. Gareth has a lot of experience in making the areas of private credit and equity larger than what they already are. He has a great grasp on knowing mathematical side of investments. This makes Gareth Henry better at his job than most, because a lot of people do not get the mathematical side of things.

Gareth has a great work ethic that makes him stand out more than many others. This has helped him to grow his name in the investing industry. Private credit has seen a large growth over the past few years. This is because of many different reasons including changes in regulations for banks, challenges with public companies, and a requirement of quarterly reports. In an interview with Ideamersch.com, Gareth talked about how the trend toward single asset investments and direct dealing of private equity and credit firms.

Gareth has a different kind of grasp on mathematical and a different industry experience that helps to make him a unique candidate for this type of job in the investment industry. This has also helped him to start and continue to grow a successful career. Prior to starting his job with Fortress, he was employed by many different investment firms. Gareth started out small, but has continued to grow into a well known investment leader. Gareth is working hard to continue to grow himself and his business. He wants to become even more successful, and with the investment industry growing in todays world, so will Gareth.

When it comes to growing investment trends, Paul Mampilly can see them from a mile away. He received financial education in college and on Wall Street. He studied finance and accounting at Montclair State University and achieved a BBA in both subjects. He also earned a Master’s degree in finance from Fordham Graduate School of Business in 1997. With a Master’s degree in finance, Mampilly was ready to hit the business world running. He started on Wall Street and worked several decades mainly as a hedge fund manager. This career would present him with many opportunities that allow him to catapult his career into overdrive. He participated in the Templeton Foundation Investment competition and won. With this prestigious win in his name, Paul Mampilly was featured on many TV networks like FOX Business News, Bloomberg TV, and CNBC, showing his financial prowess.

Paul Mampilly is the founder of the popular financial newsletter Profits Unlimited. He has over 100,000 subscribers who tune into hear the financial guru’s latest investment stock picks. Not only does he recommend stock picks, but also small-cap stocks, special opportunities, growth investing, and technology. He puts in considerable amount of work for each stock, making sure over time and with lots of research that these recommendations are as sold as possible. Now, Paul has followed up his first newsletter with two more. They are Extreme Fortunes and True Momentum. They all provide different services aimed to help people become financially wealthy and independent.

There are a few trends that Paul Mampilly recommends people to invest in now. There are growing in popularity and are not going away anytime soon. The first one is technology. This includes electric cars, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. The world of technology is growing and is only going to get much bigger in the future. Also smart investment Paul recommends is precision medicine. This specific kind of medicine is based on every individual’s DNA. Doctors and physicians will be able to diagnose, treat, and help patients with their individual results. The one size fits all method is going to be yesterday’s news when it comes to precision medicine.

Randal Nardone is the co-founder, principal, and director of Fortress Investment Group. He is married with one child and lives in New York City. His company, Fortress Investment Group, is a global investment management company which is managing nearly $41 billion worth of assets as of March 31, 2018. Fortress specializes in asset-based investing, industry knowledge and specialization, operations management, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. Randal Nardone currently ranks as #557 on Forbes list of the world’s billionaires at the age of 51 with a net-worth estimated to be around $1.8 billion. Randal Nardone attended the University of Connecticut and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology before pursuing a Doctorate of Jurisprudence at Boston University. With his career starting at Thatcher Proffitt & Wood before going through BlackRock Financial and UBS. Randal Nardone then teamed up with Wesley Edens and Rob Kauffman in 1998 to found Fortress Investment Group.
Currently, Nardone serves as a board member for Brookdale Senior Living, a senior living community company with more than 900 communities in 46 states; Springleaf Holdings, which is now known as OneMain Financial, a provider of personal loans based in Evansville, Indiana; and Gagfah Group, a realty and property management company based in Luxembourg, Germany. He is also involved in an executive management position at New Residential Investment Corp.
While Nardone is still managing Fortress Investment Group, the company was purchased by SoftBank in 2017 for $3.3 billion. He agreed to the acquisition in hopes of it strengthening Fortress and allowing the company to grow faster and access larger credit sources with the giant Japanese company behind it. Thus far, SoftBank has happily allowed Fortress to to continue operations as an essentially independent company despite the acquisition. While it is still too soon to determine how this acquisition will affect Fortress long-term, Nardone remains optimistic. Click here

Hussain Ali Habib Sajwani is the founder and chairman of DAMAC Properties, an international residential real estate development company located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In 2017, Hussain Sajwani was named as one of the top ten richest Arabs on Forbes. The self-made billionaire is reportedly worth $4.2 billion and has been nicknamed “The Donald of Dubai” for his amicable associations with President Donald Trump. The two have collaborated on a few Trump-branded projects together long before Mr. Trump became president. One of the projects is still in development and will be built on the grounds of the DAMAC Akoya property in Dubai. It will be called the Trump World Golf Course and it was exclusively designed by the world-famous golfer, Tiger Woods. The Trump World Golf Course is scheduled to open at the end of 2018.

Hussain Sajwani founded DAMAC Properties in 2002. His first residential property he had developed with DAMAC was a 38-story apartment in located in Dubai. During that time, his apartment’s primary tenants were mostly foreigners because the Dubai government had passed a decree that allowed expats to own property in the emirate. The units sold out within six months before its construction even began and DAMAC Properties quickly became one of the most in demand luxury developers in Dubai. The company had built apartments with interior designs and furnishings by two of the most famous Italian designers, Fendi and Versace. In 2013, DAMAC Properties became the first Middle Eastern real estate company to be publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Prior to DAMAC, Hussain Sajwani worked in the financial department at Abu Dhabi Gas Industries, formerly known as GASCO, a major natural gas producing company in the U.A.E. His first entrepreneurial venture began in 1982, he created a specialty food catering company that supplied food to various customers including United States military camps, construction sites for large corporations, hotels, academic institutions and many others. Mr. Sajwani is an undergraduate from the University of Washington and majored in Engineering and Economics. Mr. Sajwani currently lives in Dubai and shares four children with his wife. His son Ali Sajwani, was recently announced as DAMAC Group’s newest general manager of operations in 2017.